God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
AESCHYLUSFor it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
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